Inspiring Older Readers
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Travels with Charley posted on 15 Nov 2023
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn is charmed again by John Steinbeck's Travels With Charley despite the 'dark and ambivalent ending'
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My Petition For More Space posted on 13 Nov 2023
Dystopias come in all sorts of guises but are usually associated with some apocalyptic event ....
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Wifedom posted on 09 Nov 2023
Eileen Maud Blair (née O'Shaughnessy) married George Orwell in 1936 and the two lived together until 1945 ...
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The Cleft Stick posted on 07 Nov 2023
I would imagine that the majority of people who have heard of Walter Greenwood will have done so because he is the author of the novel Love On The Dole
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The Night of the Hunter posted on 05 Nov 2023
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn finds Davis Grubb's Southern Gothic novel "a bleak vision of the world, but ultimately not an entirely pessimistic one".
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Lincoln in the Bardo posted on 02 Nov 2023
In 2017 U.S. author, George Saunders published his first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo ...
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The Man Who Was Thursday posted on 31 Oct 2023
Europe at the turn of the 19th into the 20th century was a place of political ferment. Revolution and fear of revolution was in the air..
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Notes in the margins posted on 27 Oct 2023
Few books are more evocative of my final year at university than the Dent hardback edition of Dylan Thomas’ collected poems
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Magnificent Rebels: The first Romantics and the invention of the self posted on 26 Oct 2023
At the end of the 18th century revolution was in the air – politically and intellectually.
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The Magician posted on 22 Oct 2023
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads The Magician by Colm Tóibín and finds it is long, intense, intellectually complex and grand in its ambitions.